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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  .... They were commonly referred to as Loblolly Boy, a term borrowed from the British Royal Navy, and a reference to the daily ration of porridge fed to the sick ...ill authorizing establishment of the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps, signed into law by President William McKinley on 17 June 1898. Three rates were created the
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  ...rier]]-based squadrons among that number came from 23 ships, including the British fleet carrier [[HMS Formidable (67)|HMS ''Formidable'']]. ...]] data and engaging in [[search-and-rescue]] and [[Law enforcement agency|law-enforcement]] operations. During the [[Vietnam War]], ''Bering Strait'' par
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• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)
  ...aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations. In February 1966, ''Absecon'' stood by the disabled [[United Kingdom|British]] merchant ship ''Parthia'' while waiting for a commercial [[Tugboat|tug]].
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• USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376)
  ...aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations. On 19 February 1964, ''Coos Bay'' rescued survivors from the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[merchant ship]] ''Ambassador'' in the [[North Atlantic]].
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• USCGC Rockaway (WAVP-377)
  ...377, 1965<br/>[[High endurance cutter]], WHEC-377, 1 May 1966<br/>Offshore law enforcement vessel, WOLE-377, 23 September 1971 ...aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations.
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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  ...pplies and men from decommissioned U.S. Navy patrol plane squadrons in the British Isles, and was engaged in these activities when the war with [[Germany]] en ...ssachusetts. She was used primarily for fishing patrol, but also conducted law enforcement and search and rescue operations, during her second period in c
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• USCGC Barataria (WAVP-381)
  ...aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations. ...er home port for the remainder of her Coast Guard career. She was used for law enforcement and search and rescue duties in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
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• USS Barataria (AVP-33)
  ...]] data and engaging in [[search-and-rescue]] and [[Law enforcement agency|law-enforcement]] operations. ...ref> 1970 to N. W. Kennedy of [[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]].
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• USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387)
  ...aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] operations. She also served on the [[Bering Sea Patrol]], too ...olulu]], [[Hawaii]]. On 9 September 1949 she assisted the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[merchant ship]] [[SS Pacific Enterprise|SS ''Pacific Enterprise'']], wh
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  ...on stores in preparation for the expected invasion of [[Brunei Bay]] in [[British North Borneo]]. ...]] data and engaging in [[search-and-rescue]] and [[Law enforcement agency|law-enforcement]] operations. In 1967, with the formation of Coast Guard Squadr
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  ...eling, began patrolling the southern approaches to [[Liverpool]] and other British ports on the coast of the [[Irish Sea]].<ref name=DANFS /> ...reported location, and began a search for the U-boat in conjunction with a British [[dirigible]] and other surface units. Near the end of the second dog watch
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• USS Porter (DD-59)
  ...er'' arrived at about 16:00 and stayed with ''Cassin'' until dusk when two British sloops, {{HMS|Jessamine|1915|2}} and {{HMS|Tamarisk|1916|2}}, took over for ...y 1920, [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] was instituted by law in the United States. Soon, the smuggling of alcoholic beverages along the
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• Sugar beet
  ...ptember 21, 2009, a federal court ruled that the USDA had violated federal law in deregulating Roundup Ready sugar beets without adequately evaluating the There are plans by BP and Associated British Foods to use agricultural surpluses of sugar beet to produce [[biobutanol]]
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• AT4
  |number= 600,000+ <ref name="kemp2006">Kemp, Ian. "The law gets tougher: the shoulder-launched light anti-armour weapon has evolved to ...osest to meeting all the major requirements established to replace the M72 LAW,<ref>The French APILAS was the only tested weapon which had the maximum pen
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• MBT LAW
  The '''Main Battle Tank and Light Armour Weapon''' ('''MBT LAW''') is a disposable, man-portable, short range [[fire-and-forget]] [[anti- The MBT LAW was developed by [[Saab Bofors Dynamics]], using technology derived from th
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• Bofors scandal
  ...the High court of Delhi dismissed the Bofors case allegations against the British business brothers, Shrichand, Gopichand and Prakash [[Hinduja brothers|Hind ...out USD $4.6 million, in the two accounts have already been withdrawn. The British Government released the funds based on a request by the Indian Government.<
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• Naloxone
  ...nchrc.org/law-enforcement/us-law-enforcement-who-carry-naloxone/ |title=US Law Enforcement Who Carry Naloxone |website=North Carolina Harm Reduction Coali ...= 1 February 2016}}</ref> It comes in single use filled syringe similar to law enforcement kits.
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• Ciprofloxacin
  ...y zone of the patent, and thus could not be redressed by federal antitrust law,<ref>{{cite web |author=United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circ ...cessdate = 29 January 2009| publisher = The American Academy of Optometry (British Chapter) }}</ref>
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• Fluoxetine
  ...en L, Kingdom D |title=Akathisia as a risk factor for suicide |journal=The British journal of psychiatry: the journal of mental science |volume=188 |issue= |p ...=1 Antidepressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law], David Healy, Andrew Herxheimer, and David B. Menkes, PLoS Med 3(9): e372
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• Promethazine
  ...clopramide]] or [[prochlorperazine]]).<ref name="BNF">{{cite book | author=British National Formulary | title="BNF" | edition=45 | year=2003 | month=March | c ...ning about IV-push administration" without acting in opposition to federal law.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |last=Stout |first=David |url=http://www.ny
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• Nitrous oxide
  ...s", primarily arranged for the [[Social structure of Britain#Upper classes|British upper class]], became an immediate success beginning in 1799. While the eff ...to cause euphoria and slight hallucinations, began as a phenomenon for the British upper class in 1799, known as "laughing gas parties". Until at least 1863,
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• Mercury (element)
  [[Image:Pound-coin-floating-in-mercury.jpg|thumb|left|A [[One pound (British decimal coin)|pound coin]] (density ~7.6 g/cm³) floats in mercur ...oorly screens the nuclear charge that increases the attractive [[Coulomb's law|Coulomb interaction]] of the 6s shell and the nucleus (see [[lanthanide con
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• Morphine
  The poppy straw methods predominate in Continental Europe and the British Commonwealth, with the latex method in most common use in India. The latex ...his day, poppy farming is legal in Hungary, but poppy farms are limited by law to {{convert|2|acre|m2}}. It is also legal to sell dried poppy in flower sh
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• Ephedrine
  ...Formulary Committee. [[British National Formulary]], 47th edition. London: British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; 2004 ...]'' as an amendment to the renewal of the [[USA PATRIOT Act]]. Signed into law by president [[George W. Bush]] on March 6, 2006, the act amended the [[US
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• Temazepam
  ...08|author= BNF|authorlink=British National Formulary|year= 2008|publisher= British National Formulary }}</ref> ...3 |issue=29 |pmid=41539 |pmc=1429628 |format=PDF |pages=23S–29S |journal=British journal of clinical pharmacology}}</ref>
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• Donald Mackenzie Wallace
  ...Order|KCVO]] (11 November 1841 – 10 January 1919) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] public servant, editor and foreign correspondent of [[The Times]] (London ...nd [[University of Heidelberg|Heidelberg]], graduating with a doctorate in law from Heidelberg in 1867.
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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-k ...e eleventh edition. Though it is generally perceived as a quintessentially British work, the eleventh edition had substantial American influences, not only in
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  The '''''Encyclopædia Britannica''''' ([[Latin]] for "British Encyclopaedia") is a general English-language [[encyclopedia|encyclopaedia] ...nnica'' has maintained [[American and British English spelling differences|British spelling]].<ref name="kister_1994" />
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...umes. The first number appeared on December 6, 1768 in Edinburgh, priced [[British sixpence coin|sixpence]] or 8 [[pence]] on finer paper. The ''Britannica'' ...n (continued to this day) of dedicating the ''Britannica'' to the reigning British monarch, then [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]]; calling
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• Viscometer
  ...size and density of the sphere, and the [[density]] of the liquid, Stokes' law can be used to calculate the [[viscosity]] of the fluid. A series of steel ...of the piston are used to calculate the viscosity according to Newton’s Law of Viscosity. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OPvisc1.JPG alternate
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• Asphalt
  In [[British English]], the word 'asphalt' refers to a mixture of mineral aggregate and The first British patent for the use of asphalt was 'Cassell's patent asphalte or bitumen' in
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• Depleted uranium
  ...ref> This made it clear, in paragraphs 54, 55 and 56, that [[international law]] on poisonous weapons—the Second Hague Declaration of 29 July 1899, Hagu ...onal Court of Justice]] considers this rule binding customary humanitarian law.}}
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• Glossary of textile manufacturing
  :[[Fiber]] or '''fibre''' (see [[American and British English spelling differences|spelling differences]]) is a class of [[materi ...ionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820|date=2007|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=58820|accessdate=11 April 2010}}.</ref><re
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• List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords)
  |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=bCLNX8_a4WQC&pg=PA248&dq=Law+for+the+Preservation+of+Ancient+Shrines+and+Temples&client=firefox-a&sig=UB ...definition, and have been designated national treasures according to the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties that came into effect on June 9,
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• Firestop
  ...ag.jpg|[[Mortar (firestop)|Firestop Mortar]] seal at a [[paper mill]] in [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]. ...is compromised. For any deviations from this principle, one is required by law to contact the [[Authority Having Jurisdiction]] (AHJ) to gain acceptance o
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• Hemp
  ...items that include the seed oils, whole hemp grain (which is sterilized by law), dehulled hemp seed (the whole seed without the mineral rich outer shell), ...ercially in cannabis, hemp, or marijuana. It was repealed by an overriding law in 1970.
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• White cane
  *'''Identification cane ("Symbol Cane" in British English)''': The ID cane is used primarily to alert others as to the bearer ...tober 6, 1964, a joint resolution of the Congress, HR 753, was signed into law authorizing the President of the United States to proclaim October 15 of ea
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• Confined space
  ...ctim. One example was in 2006 at the decommissioned [[Sullivan Mine]] in [[British Columbia, Canada]] when one initial victim and then three rescuers all died ...n compliance with the Regulations and has evidentiary status in a court of law.
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• Dry cleaning
  This changed when the British dry-cleaning equipment company Spencer introduced the first in-shop machine ...d water. This material should then be disposed of in accordance with local law.
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...s M, Lennmarken C|title=Carboxyhaemoglobinaemia and pulse oximetry|journal=British Journal of Anaesthesia|volume=66|issue=5|pages=625–626|year=1991|month=Ma ...the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.<ref name="Anderson-NYT"/> After the British government phased out coal gas in favor of natural gas in the 1960s, the su
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• Dead man's switch
  ...ower sold in the US since 1982 has an "operator-presence" device, which by law must stop the blades within 3 seconds after the user lets go of the control ...om being defeated by the above circumstances, and is a standard feature on British DSD systems.<ref>http://locodocs.co.uk/brmanuals/DSD-33056-4-Issue1.htm</re
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• Factories Act 1961
  ...ch not actionable in itself may be evidential towards a claim for [[common law]] [[negligence]]. In particular, a criminal conviction may be given in evid ...rthern Ireland) 1965''' which consolidated earlier Acts there. As with the British Act, as of 2008 most of the provisions have been repealed and superseded by
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• Manganese
  ...anese to iron made it harder, without making it any more brittle. In 1837, British academic [[James Couper]] noted an association between heavy exposures to m [[File:M1917helmet.jpg| thumb|right|British [[Brodie helmet]]]]
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• Asbestos
  | publisher =British Geological Survey ...th were afflicted with a sickness of the lungs.<ref>P. Brodeur, "Annals of Law, The Asbestos Industry on Trial, 1-A Failure to Warn", ''[[The New Yorker]]
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• PAT Testing
  ...turing process to ensure compliance with the relevant or corresponding BS (British Standard Code of Practice) for that type of appliance.{{Citation needed|dat British law (the [[Health and safety regulations in the United Kingdom|Electricity at W
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• Institute of Occupational Medicine
  ...erpinned the recommendations for more stringent airborne dust standards in British coalmines and the PFR was ultimately used as the basis for many national du ...5-166.</ref>. This work was awarded the prestigious Bedford Prize by the [[British Occupational Hygiene Society]].
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• Air safety
  ...yre-inadequate/ Hiding requirements = suspicion they're inadequate], Nolan Law Group, January 18, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.lightningtech.com/pdfs/A_PROP * [[British European Airways Flight 548]], June 18, 1972
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• Work–life balance
  There is not a federal law requiring paid sick days in the United States. At least 134 countries have American workers average approximately ten paid holidays per year while British workers average twenty-five holidays and German employees thirty. Americans
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• Hazard symbol
  * [[British Standard]] BS 5499: Graphical symbols and signs [[Category:European Union law]]
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...and controlling the risks".<ref>[http://www.bohs.org/standardTemplate.aspx British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS)]</ref> The International Occupational :[[British Occupational Hygiene Society]] (BOHS)
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